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{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2020}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Fungoid frog
| image = Hylarana malabarica-Madayippara.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite iucn | author = Biju, S.D. | author2 = Dutta, Sushil | author3 = Inger, Robert | title = ''Hydrophylax malabaricus'' | volume = 2004 | page = e.T58657A89369722 | date = 2004 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58657A11821459.en }} Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is of least concern</ref>
| genus = Hydrophylax (frog)
| species = malabaricus
| authority = ([[Johann Jakob von Tschudi|Tschudi]], 1838)
| synonyms =
* ''Rana malabarica'' <small>Tschudi, 1838</small>
* ''Hylarana malabarica'' <small>(Günther, 1859)</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/?action=names&taxon=Hylarana+malabarica |title=''Hylarana malabarica'' (Tschudi, 1838) |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2013 |work=Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |accessdate=12 July 2013}}</ref>
}}
[[File:The Fungoid Frog (Hylarana malabarica).jpg|thumb|The Fungoid Frog at Ezhimala, North Malabar, Kerala]]

The '''fungoid frog''' or '''Malabar Hills frog''' (''Hydrophylax malabaricus'') is a colourful [[frog]] found on the forest floor and lower vegetation in the [[Western Ghats]] in south-western [[India]] from Bombay to Kerala. It is very similar to another species with which it overlaps partly in range, ''[[Hydrophylax bahuvistara]]'' which extends further into parts of central India.<ref name=IUCN/><ref name=frost/><ref name="PadhyeJadhav2015">{{cite journal|last1=Padhye|first1=Anand D.|last2=Jadhav|first2=Anushree|last3=Modak|first3=Nikhil|last4=Nameer|first4=P.O.|last5=Dahanukar|first5=Neelesh|title=Hydrophylax bahuvistara, a new species of fungoid frog (Amphibia: Ranidae) from peninsular India|journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa|volume=7|issue=11|year=2015|pages=7744–7760|issn=0974-7893|doi=10.11609/JoTT.o4252.7744-60|doi-access=free}}</ref>
Although restricted in range within peninsular India, they are of least conservation concern.<ref name=IUCN/> Their upper parts vary in colour from brownish-red to bright crimson.

==Description==
{{technical|section|date=March 2015}}
Vomerine teeth in two oval oblique groups between the choanae. Head moderate, depressed; snout moderate, hardly as long as the diameter of the orbit, subacuminate, moderately prominent; loreal region concave; nostril nearer to the end of the snout than to the eye; interorbital space rather narrower than the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, nearly as large as the eye. fingers moderate, first extending beyond second; toes rather short, half webbed : tips of fingers and toes swollen; subarticular tubercles very strong; inner metatarsal tubercle oval, blunt; a large rounded tubercle at the base of the fourth toe; no tarsal fold. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tympanum or the eye. Skin finely granulate above; a broad, not very prominent glandular lateral fold; a strong glandular fold from below the eye to the shoulder, followed by one or two glandules. Head and body bright crimson above, blackish brown on the sides; back sometimes with a few small black spots; upper lip, and a series of spots on the flank, white ; limbs blackish brown above, spotted and marbled with pale brown and while; beneath uniform white, or marbled brown and white.<ref>Boulenger, G. A. (1890) The Fauna of British India: Reptilia and Batrachia</ref>

==References==
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{{Commons category|Hylarana malabarica}}

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[[Category:Hylarana]]
[[Category:Frogs of India]]
[[Category:Fauna of Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats]]
[[Category:Amphibians described in 1838]]

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Fungoid frog - Revision history

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